{"id":488363,"date":"2019-07-24T12:10:45","date_gmt":"2019-07-24T18:10:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=863060"},"modified":"2019-07-24T12:10:45","modified_gmt":"2019-07-24T18:10:45","slug":"see-ac-dc-rile-up-dutch-crowd-with-seedy-the-jack-performance-in-1979","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/music-news\/see-ac-dc-rile-up-dutch-crowd-with-seedy-the-jack-performance-in-1979\/","title":{"rendered":"See AC\/DC Rile Up Dutch Crowd With Seedy \u2018The Jack\u2019 Performance in 1979"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/acdc-1979-bon-scott.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/ac-dc\/\" id=\"auto-tag_ac-dc\" data-tag=\"ac-dc\">AC\/DC<\/a> played a steamy rendition of \u201cThe Jack,\u201d singer Bon Scott\u2019s ode to STDs, when the band appeared on the Dutch TV show <em>Countdown<\/em> on July 13th, 1979. Dressed only in jeans and shoes, Scott caressed his mic and peered out at the packed crowd as he sang sexual innuendos, leading them in a sing-along accompanied only by the drums. Angus Young, also shirtless, plays his own seedy guitar solo midway through the bluesy number.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Jack\u201d originally featured on the 1975 Australian release of <em>T.N.T.<\/em> and the international release of <em>High Voltage<\/em> the following year. The title is a reference to gonorrhea. \u201cWe were living with this houseful of ladies who were all very friendly and everyone in the band had got the jack,\u201d Scott told <em>Sounds in<\/em> 1976, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.songfacts.com\/facts\/ac-dc\/the-jack\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">SongFacts.com<\/a>. \u201cSo we wrote this song and the first time we did it on stage they were all in the front row with no idea what was goin\u2019 to happen. When it came to repeatin\u2019 \u2018She\u2019s got the jack\u2019 I pointed at them one after another.\u201d Angus Young added, \u201cAfter that, wherever we did the song the girls in the audience would run to the back of the hall.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The footage, which comes after the release of the band doing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/ac-dc-highway-to-hell-videos-40th-anniversary-859822\/\">\u201cHighway to Hell\u201d<\/a> on the same day, was originally included in the group\u2019s <em>Plug Me In<\/em> DVD box set. They\u2019re now releasing the videos on YouTube to mark the 40th anniversary of their <em>Highway to Hell<\/em> album (their last with Scott), which came out on July 27th, 1979. Scott died of alcohol poisoning on February 19th, 1980.<\/p>\n<p>As for the band in its current form, AC\/DC have been keeping mum about their plans for a follow up to 2016\u2019s <em>Rock or Bust<\/em>. By the end of the tour in support of the record, the group was in a fractured state. Scott\u2019s replacement since his death, Brian Johnson, left the group mid tour due to hearing issues. Malcolm Young exited the group prior to the album\u2019s release due to dementia and was replaced by his nephew, Stevie Young. And drummer Phil Rudd was facing legal issues in New Zealand. That said, Johnson and Rudd have been photographed with bassist Cliff Williams outside a studio in Vancouver leading to speculation that they may be making a new album.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/ac-dc-the-jack-video-highway-to-hell-863060\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AC\/DC played a steamy rendition of \u201cThe Jack,\u201d singer Bon Scott\u2019s ode to STDs, when the band appeared on the Dutch TV show Countdown on July 13th, 1979. Dressed only in jeans and shoes, Scott caressed his mic and peered out at the packed crowd as he sang sexual innuendos, leading them in a sing-along [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-488363","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-25 05:30:57","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KQZR - The Reel","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=488363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488363\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=488363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=488363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=488363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}